The questionnaire is given to the twenty subjects of the fifth semester students at English Language Education
department of University of Muhammadiyah Gresik who join the subject of Introduction to Research in English
Language Teaching.
The class had already undergone the implementation of a lesson study on the use of
constructive teaching method handled by a team teaching of four lecturers. After the implementation, the class is
observed and recorded to collect the qualitative data and then reduced, displayed, and drawn into research
conclusion.
The results show that the constructive teaching method had stimulated students’ motivation in
learning especially on the students’ engagement in individual and group activities that is the more the students
engaged the more motivated they are.
The motivation, in fact, can be triggered by two complementary ways that
is from individuals to members of the group or from the group to individuals.
This study implied that the process
of learning content course in English Language Teaching is highly important to be considered because this will
automatically influence the students’ motivation to learn and finally achieve the learning materials better.